Yahoo! mail sucks to the 419th degree
I had one message in my Yahoo! account today. Been trying to phase it out years it seems. Today though, one shiny new 419 scam message came through. I guess I’ll have to give my friends at Yahoo! a few tips on filtering. Ok, so Yahoo! if a message comes through with the words, ‘inheritance’ and ‘Nigeria’, it’s a f–king scam and puts your users at risk! When this occurs it should be sent into the bulk spam folder. OK!? What’s that? I can filter things using my own mail options? Normally that would be the case, but you chumps limited me to 8 filters and the slots have been filled since the first day I used your email service 15 years ago.
This message did make me smile though. Could Yahoo be wise to my personality from all their data mining and know we’ll all get a little chuckle at the lengths scamming parasites will go to fish for idiots. They’ve been doing this inheritance bit since the ’70’s or something. I’m starting to think that 419 scamming is like a service that autostarts on Nigerian computers, kind of like a Google Toolbar. “Thank you for installing Nigerian Skype ‘Mr. Olaide.’ Check this box if you would like to additionally install the 419 Scam-bar so you can chat with your rich American friends.”
Update
This was a boring post granted, it’s just that I don’t see how Yahoo will get me back to using their stuff when I get more spam, everything is slower ( had to fully disable the advanced email interface it was crashing my browser for a long time.) And today I got a repeat of an email from the exact same person with the same photo and the same sender that I marked as spam. Same subject line. Something about connecting with some Chinese goddess named Yao, with a singles photo. I’ve given up trying to understand spammer motivations, because there are many, but at least I want no repeats of them after I’ve made my decision to send them to oblivion. That’s Yahoo!’s filter’s job.
February 15, 2010 at 8:13 pm | rants | No comment
